{"id":22948,"date":"2010-11-17T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_important_thought_to_begin_the_day\/"},"modified":"2010-11-17T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:00:58","slug":"an_important_thought_to_begin_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22948","title":{"rendered":"An Important Thought to Begin the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything he has given us \u201d\u201c and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful man or woman knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Thomas Merton, <b>Thoughts in Solitude<\/b> (New York: Farrar, Straus and Geroux, 1956), p. 33<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything he has given us \u201d\u201c and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22948\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,154,184,177,364,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-roman-catholic","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}